# - Debussy, Claude and Maurice Ravel.

Debussy, Claude. 1) Autograph letter signed ("Claude Debussy"), to an unnamed correspondent, asking to be forgiven for not having given him the thing he promised, stating that he is ill in the head ("...et mal par dedans la tête..."), 1 page, 8vo, integral blank, [Paris,] 76, Boulevard Malesherbes, chez M. Etienne Dupin, Saturday [no date]; 2) Autograph letter signed ("Claude Debussy"), to Pierre Louys, on a postcard, not published in Correspondence, 1 page, small oblong 8vo, autograph address-panel, postmarked 25 September 1894,creasing, repairs to leading edge



Ravel, Maurice. Autograph letter signed ("Maurice Ravel"), to an unnamed correspondent, sending him a few bars from his "Rhapsodie Espagnole" [not enclosed here], which he says was recently performed at a Colonne concert, 3 pages, 8vo, 25 March [year erased: '[19]08'?]

From the William Reeves collection

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Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole was composed in 1907 and first performed at a Colonne concert, Paris, on 5 March, 1908.